OpenAI Launches “Workspace Agents” to Industrialize Corporate Labor

OpenAI introduced Workspace Agents for ChatGPT—Codex-powered autonomous assistants with dedicated cloud sandboxes, persistent memory, scheduled tasking, and multi-tool orchestration—designed to automate workflows across sales, product feedback routing, software review, metric reporting, and third-party risk management; the platform emphasizes low-code natural-language configuration, RBAC and human-in-the-loop approvals, logging and a Compliance API, is available to business/enterprise/edu/teachers tiers with a promotional free period, and is positioned competitively against Microsoft and Google enterprise AI offerings.